chocolote12
A Penguin Flailing Against The Keyboard Of Life.
Does it? We've got three of them on us right now, if I recall correctly (the Torc, the Seed, and The Belt, which deserves both capital letters).
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
- Thread starter Boney
- Start date
- Fantasy Users' Choice!
Voted best in category in the Users' Choice awards.
It does. Using the Seed or the torc (which, in my opinion, just doesn't compare to our other swag) means a little bit of Dhar is produced, since it's using two winds (the permanent Ulgu enchant, plus the activation of the effect) at the same time. I think there was some WoG clarifying it when we made the robe.
The greenskins rely on burning wood and various mushroom oils for light, which means that your uncooperative shadow is difficult to spot as being any different from the flickering, jumping shadows of everyone else as long as you don't stick around too much. This may become more of a problem later, depending on how (whether?) the skaven illuminate their sections of the Karak.
The Seed works internally, the Torc projects outwardly, and your Aethyric Armour lies just atop your skin, so the three of them can just about coexist happily. There's some resultant Dhar but your belt burns it off, and even if it didn't a little Dhar is still preferable to whatever wounds your Seed would be healing. But if you, say, got your hands on an artifact that gave you the effects of Esbern's Boar's Hide spell, then it and your Aethyric Armour would intermingle constantly, and while your belt would prevent it from lasting long after it curdled into Dhar, magic that is being turned into fire is magic that is not protecting you.
- Location
- Upon the back of the Great A'Tuin
With how fast and easy Aethyric Armour is to cast, we really don't need to bother with re-enchanting our robes. The only reason to enchant them in the first place was in to provide some protection in the very unlikely case of a sudden ambush assassination attempt.
Agreed. I feel like it would be advantageous to have a heavily warded and secured workshop in K8P even if we keep most of our day to day business in Stirland.
Do Skaven see in the dark?
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I don't believe so, but they have excellent senses of smell and hearing.
Last edited:
About what I expected. Studying it would be likely to get us purged.
TimEd
Meteor maker
[X] Advance deeper into Karag Lhune.
[X] A fire among the haphazardly stacked doom diver wings will neutralize the threat, and judging by how high they're stacked near the torches, it may even be thought an accident.
Still wanna do Terror Tactics, but it could probably be saved for later.
After all, aside from the specifics of Necromancy we could have come from the knowledge through other sources, no matter how unlikely that may be.
[X] A fire among the haphazardly stacked doom diver wings will neutralize the threat, and judging by how high they're stacked near the torches, it may even be thought an accident.
Still wanna do Terror Tactics, but it could probably be saved for later.
getting caught with it will get us purged, but it hasnt been wiped from existence for a reason.
After all, aside from the specifics of Necromancy we could have come from the knowledge through other sources, no matter how unlikely that may be.
Last edited:
Magic being actively channelled is much more reactive than ambient magical energies, and forcing two winds of magic to meet accelerates this even further.
From eyeballing the map, it'd take about 40 hours of Shadowsteed riding to travel between Stirland and Karak Eight Peaks. About five days at a reasonable pace, three in a pinch.
They can see very well in low light, but not total darkness. They're much less sight-reliant than humans or dwarves so even in total darkness they can get around fairly well using their nose and whiskers. But they'd have illumination whenever there's delicate work to be done, or when they have non-skaven slaves to do the work.
[X] A fire among the haphazardly stacked doom diver wings will neutralize the threat, and judging by how high they're stacked near the torches, it may even be thought an accident.
[X] Return to the army with what little information you've garnered.
so finally read this Quest and glad I did.
though reading it all in a few days has let me notice that the thread has become a lot less risk-averse since the exam.
and yes, our girl is a badass now, and it narratively makes sense that she is a bit reckless at the moment, but the GM is going to start scaling the threats up at some point and a nat 1 is a nat 1.
going any deeper is pushing our luck and GM's mercy.
[X] Return to the army with what little information you've garnered.
so finally read this Quest and glad I did.
though reading it all in a few days has let me notice that the thread has become a lot less risk-averse since the exam.
and yes, our girl is a badass now, and it narratively makes sense that she is a bit reckless at the moment, but the GM is going to start scaling the threats up at some point and a nat 1 is a nat 1.
going any deeper is pushing our luck and GM's mercy.
Last edited:
Eh, there might be some wiggle room if we make sure not to study it. We are just following the last order of our Elector Count.
BungieONI
Seven gremlins in a trench coat
- Location
- Lickwidget
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Again, it stands on getting caught with it at all. Since that's the lowest common denominator given what Boney mentioned about people freaking out that it exists. And right now and for a significant period after that, there is very little reason for people to look.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
You may have a point, at least in regards to recklessness with sabotaging the enemy artillery, but we're here to scout, we possess the skills to get much more, and we have next to nothing so far.
I mean just generally, per exam the questers would not have even think about doing all the solo diving into enemy territory without loads of planning and build up first.
now, we seem to be picking the riskiest option most of the time. (Ironhammer didn't ask us to do this scouting, we chose to do this... im not even sure he knows we are even here!)
No way to prove it one way or another.
Pushing further is simply going for the stated scouting goals though. We don't have any actionable intel that won't be immediately obvious in the first minute of battle.
And not especially risky given drunk greenskins spotting skill is shit.
So probably just some glowing goo unless its an engineer, leader or spellcaster
Guile
Having a really great time right now
No one can resist the allure of the Mystery Box.
Coming back to Stirland and being completely impossible to dislodge would be fun.
"How goes the hunt, my spymaster?"
"We are almost 50% sure she is actually in this province, My Lord, and not flying in from the Marches on the back of some hideous shadow beast!"
"... Thank you, Inquisitor."
...
"You should really fire him."
"Hush, Dame Weber."
"I'm just saying."
- Location
- florida
- Location
- his hidden lair
Eh, not permanently leaving Stirland either, just having a residence for the real high security shit we're inevitably going to get involved with. We kept the Tome, and now it's time to own up to being it's keeper. That means creating the greatest security and protection we can for it- secrecy, a secure location, and a force protecting it that will never be tempted to use it. We really can't ask for a better place to keep it then a Dwarf Hold that will consider itself Oathbound to keep our stash out of anyone else's hands. Especially a major and defensible one like Eight Peaks.
Like seriously, we can travel hundreds of miles in a day before we even consider have to consider putting more effort into getting there like a magical item to temporarily reduce or ignore fatigue or keeping a gyrocopter pilot or two on retainer at Zhufbar for a fast commute. We are mobile.
Eh, a lot of what I'd like to do in the long run is commission Dwarven items and then eventually enchant them ourselves. Enchanting a single flamberge with Mindrazor for instance seems way less risky than actually casting the spell, presumably easier to pull off, and would make Mathilde an utter beast in melee. It would take a lot of Dwarf favors to rival that, and it wouldn't be as thematically interesting.
Rings- we'd probably want at least one Ulgu ring and I doubt we can spam magical rings to begin with. Armor, we'd probably be better off getting the Dwarves to make a bitching set of armor (who's ever heard of gromril light armor amirite?) to sneak around in that we can wear under our robes and then enchant that then just going all in on Dwarvish runed armor. We invested in being talented at enchanting oh so long ago, sooner than later it's time to get gud and make some awesome enchanted personal gear. Moreover, the more rep we get with the Dwarves, the more opportunities we liable to have to get favors with them especially if we're partially living with them. We'd have the rep to be considered capable, trustworthy, and a close ally of theirs. Us being in a position to help them out further is likelier than not. Even if its' just 'can you help us track down and gank this goblin, he's on the list.'
[X] A fire among the haphazardly stacked doom diver wings will neutralize the threat, and judging by how high they're stacked near the torches, it may even be thought an accident.
A thought? Could we use a magic dart to start a fight among the greenskins? Like the thing with the rock from Jason and the Argonauts?
A thought? Could we use a magic dart to start a fight among the greenskins? Like the thing with the rock from Jason and the Argonauts?
- Location
- Someplace Somewhere
Certain Skaven such as plague monks are completely blind or there eyesight has been damaged to the point where they can't see anywhere near as good as other skaven.
Last edited:
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Theoretically, maybe, but it would have to be timed ludicrously right. Too uncertain to try it.
- Location
- Pilipinas
Heavy armor of the Knights of Morr, the Black Guard and the Knights of the Scythe and Raven is supposed to be enchanted with silence hence making them very stealthy.
- Location
- Memphis, TN
Don't go to the Border Princes it sucks there.
You literally have nothing to work with but very small villages and basically you would everything from the ground up with no protected roads.
Not only do you have to a shit ton of orc waaghs, there is also other asshole border princes, and a good portion of people living there aren't the best.
You literally have nothing to work with but very small villages and basically you would everything from the ground up with no protected roads.
Not only do you have to a shit ton of orc waaghs, there is also other asshole border princes, and a good portion of people living there aren't the best.